Types of Bone Fractures

Bone breaks incompletely, occurs most commonly during the infantile stages of life.

• Greenstick Fracture

• Stable Fracture

• Bluestick Fracture

• Comminuted Fracture

A female patient is brought to the emergency room with an injury to her lower leg from an ATV accident. You notice a white tip of a bone protruding through the skin as you cut her pant leg off. Her injury is described as what kind of fracture.

• Comminuted

• Pathologic

• Compound

• Stress

Bone breaks into many fragments.

• Shattered Fracture
• Traction Fracture 
• Comminuted Fracture
• The Magic School Bus

The xray shows a fracture that has bones broken into more than two pieces. What type of fracture is this?

• Simple

• Compound

• Impacted

• Comminuted

The diagram shows a fracture that has two bones crushing into each other. What type of fracture is this?

• Simple

• Compound

• Impacted

• Comminuted

This type of fracture has little or no movement or displacement of broken bones.

• Closed Fracture

• Open Fracture

Bone breaking through the surrounding tissues, including the skin, secondary to significant displacement of the bones.

• Closed Fracture

• Open Fracture

Incomplete break in a bone that have not completely ossified.

• Greenstick Fracture

• Oblique Fracture

• Spiral Fracture

• Transverse Fracture

Occurs when one end of the bone receives sudden torsion and the other end is fixed or stabilized.

• Greenstick Fracture

• Oblique Fracture

• Spiral Fracture

• Transverse Fracture

S-shaped separation of the bone. Occurs when the foot is firmly planted and body is suddenly rotated.

• Greenstick Fracture

• Oblique Fracture

• Spiral Fracture

• Transverse Fracture